What a long strange trip its been, these last 72 - 96 hours.....
First, I want to say thanks to those who started and kept going this new home for the Lounge Lizards. Ever since I discovered the original thread, I found a warm and welcoming group who not only shared very useful trip planning (and trip enjoying) advice, but a group that cared for one another.
Second, I thought I should set the record straight. I did not start the useful concierge info thread in the Resorts Forum. I had simply replied to an existing post. I then got the idea, that one of the first posts could contain the contact information for all of the concierge planning offices. As people posted contact information, I took the liberty (without asking) of updating my original post with each new addition. Looking back, I should have asked the original poster if I could use their information.
At about this time there seemed to be some controversy about where posts belonged, and the creation, moving and deletion of many threads connected with concierge and the lizards. Meanwhile I was out of the boards for significant blocks of time, due to several reasons:
On Thursday evening, I fried one of our two computers. My efforts on Friday evening to restore it resulted in complete disaster.
The weekend found our family dealing with very large time commitments for children's activities. Since this is the community board, I will give you all the details. Oldest DD is in community theater, doing performances Friday and Saturday. Both DDs had their final Cheerleading Exhibition (imagine 10 hours in a high school gym, sitting on bleachers).
When I finally came back to the DIS very late Saturday night, I found many PMs, from various people. I also discovered that my original reply to an existing thread, became the start of a new thread. This was done without my knowledge, but I do understand (after reading many many posts, across various threads) why the moderators felt the need to do this.
I did feel that I was placed in the awkward position of either offending my friends in the lounge or the moderators, based on how I responded to the events and requests. This was not a comfortable position for me.
I did not want to loose my friends from the lounge, whom I genuinely enjoying sharing our lives with.
I did not want to offend those whose knowledge and experience of Concierge was far greater than mine. I only meant to add my 2 cents.
And lastly I did not wish to do anything that would offend the moderators, and ban me from the DIS. A true gem of a website, containing invaluable information on Disney World and numerous people with vast knowledge of how to plan and enhance the Disney experience.
Again, I am truly sorry if I have offended anyone in the lounge by anything I did, or failed to do.
I hope we can continue with our "family" here in the community board. I am very sorry that we have lost some of our members. My life will be a little less because of the loss.....
Thank you for letting me share this.
I hope someday to do it again.
With WL getting a new lounge soon and they seeming wanting to bring WL brought up to par on service standards, I may have to try it again in the future. They have a rough road ahead. They definitely need more talent to keep up with us. That's what makes us repeat guests.
